Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proctor (Scott McKay) is daft in love with his neurotic, flutter-hearted patient, and has brought her to his family's home to calm her down for marriage. His-brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), a gay, bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs...
...illustrious President of the United States, four times summoned by popular vote to the headship of the most powerful community in the world, for his definition of power politics. With that marvelous gift which he has of bringing troublesome issues down to earth and reducing them to the calm level of ordinary life, the President declared in his recent message to Congress that power politics was misuse of power. I am sure I can say . . . we are absolutely in agreement...
When a Jap midget submarine fired two torpedoes at the ship, and was rammed by a U.S. destroyer, MacArthur watched with emotionless interest. His calm under air attack, first noted in Manila and Corregidor, was again displayed...
...never that frightened again. He credits most of this relative calm to the fact that on later flights he was busy making tests on the pilots and himself, ascribes very little of it to getting used to enemy fire. For a man never gets really used to enemy fire: Kirsch has records of a pilot who reacted similarly on his 8th, 15th, 22nd and 25th missions...
Competing for top honors as "the most calm and collected best man" were John Barsanti and Dave Schieder last Saturday afternoon at the Schirmer and Nikkel weddings...